A lot is made of getting things perfect. Of reducing flaws in the system down to zero. To get it exactly, precisely and perfectly right - all things moving exactly how we imagine it.
Call it excellence or best practice or whatever you like, but you get the idea. And of course, there's nothing wrong with that. It’s a noble pursuit a lot of leaders aspire to.
So we pursue having it just so; making each aspect of your team and operation completely in order, predictable, and perfectly in line. If you work hard enough at this process, you'll have all your ducks in a row and everything working interdependently and perfect.
And while this may seem like a fantastic goal to devote resource toward, it shouldn’t be.
In our desire to remove all the valleys that delay or divert our frameworks and teams, we also remove all the mountaintops.
You can’t have one without the other.
In reality, having everything in a...